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Putnam County Old Settlers.

Special TO the IndianapoIis Journal.
GREENcAsTLE, July 2S.-The annual meeting
of the Putnam County Old Settlers and Picnic
Association Was held to-day in large and beau
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Steamship News.

NEW York. July 2s.-Arrived: Wmsland.
fpom Antwerp.
SoUTHANProN, July 2s.-Arrived: Saale,
from New York for Bremen.
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PARI 3. July 2s.-The Courier du Soir reports
that General BoulanGer has requested official
permission to challenge NJ. Ferry to fight duel,
on account Of the ex-Premier's recent speech at
Eninal.
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Not the Same Man.

Boston Courier.
A woman always looks under the bed for a
man. A man goes out between acts to look fog
m
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DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN,

Indications.
WASHINGTON, July 90 1 A. NJ.
For Ohio and Indiana-Cooler: fair weather;
variable winds, generally northerly.
For Iliinois-Cooler; fair weather, winds gem
orally easterly.
For Lower Michigan-Fair weather; winds gen.
orally uortherly; lower tenn perature in the east
ern portion; stationary temperature in the west
ern portion.
For Wisconsin-Fair weather; stationary tenn
perature; winds generally easterly.
Local Weather Record.
INDIANAPOLIS. July o. 1887.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10
The Yankton Insane Asylum
Trustees Determine to
Defy Gov. Church.
They Will Do the Work and
Ask the Legislature to
Foot the Bills.
Considerable Acrimony May
Be Developed Over the
BpoWn-Webb Affair.
Statements From Both Sides
Regarding the Matter
The Beck Chestnut.

Special to the Globe.
YANKToN, OAK, Sept. 9.-William M.
Powers, president of the board of trus-
tees of the insane asylum in this city,
was interviewed by the GLOBE CORE
spondent to-day in regard to the con-
templated improvements for which the
legislature appropriated $4,000. Mr..
Powers stated that, while he and the
entire board of trustees were friendly
to Gov. Church, they did not think his
action in the matter was justifiable, and
the trustees would Immediately begin
the improvements.
SAID MIR. POWERS:
We will go right ahead with the improve
ments, whether Gov. Church likes it or not.
We wont ask him. We are now erecting an
electric light plant, sinking an artesian well
and putting up outbuildings which will cost
$4,000. A portion of these improvements
are to be paid out of the $4,000 appro-
priated. So you will see we mean business:
Twenty-Five Workmen are now employed
on these improvements, and In SIX
months there will be 125. They
we ought not to have done, and now we pro-
pose to do those things which we ought to
have done. We will advertise for bids and
let the contract for building the east and
west wings. 1nere are pleuty OI Iuen WHO
are willing to advance the money. 1t is only
a matter of fifteen or eighteen months any.
how when the next legislature will meet and
take this matter out of the governor hands.
There are five tenants in the Union county
Jail, two in Clay and others in Brown, Law
renee, Pennington and Brule counties await
ing vacancy in the asylum, and, if for no
other reason than to relieve their sufferings
and furnish proper treatment for those un-
fortunates, we will erect the building with
all possible speed.
1T Is UNDERSTOOD HERE
that the contract for constructing and
filling up these wings will be let to par
ties who will sub-let the work, and who
are willing and able to wait till the
meeting of the next legislature, when
this money, together with interest on
the money advanced, is expected to be
paid. The GLOBE correspondent has
ascertained beyond doubt that this
determination is concurred in by every
member of the board.
GOV. CHURCH HASN'T HEARD OF 1T.
A telegram was sent to Gov. Church
last night asking what he intended do
ing in regard to the matter, and the fol-
lowing answer was received:
To the Editor of the Globe.
BISMARCK, Sept. 81 am of the opinion
that your correspondent is mistaken regard
ing the Yankton asylum matter. l have no
information about it. L. 4. CHURCH.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10

| mentary story which is hardly worth
paying any attention to. He claims to
have been in the hands of the Sioux for
dozen years: but the Indian agents
have been communicated with and none
of them ever heard of him before.'
The records of the war department
show no engagement at the time men
toned, nor approximately thereto.
There was nOuprising of the Ogallallahs
then, nor has there been any captures
such as Bill Beck mentions 1t is thin
story altogether. One of the gentlemen
connected with the Indian Office, who
saw Beck when he came to the commits
sioner with his story, says:
HE is homely old fellow, unkempt
and unpreposseSSing in appearance. He
seems to be between SIS and 60 wears of
age. He told his romance and said:
If me no get me back mine white-skin,
den me go back init mine red-skin. Me
like for to get mine white-Skin, some
more, but me like red-Skin purity we'll,
too, neider.' He did not seem to care
especially for his white wife, but
thought he'd just drop in and see if she
happened to be within reach"
Another gentleman who processes to
know still more about the case, upon
seeingsthe above telegram, said: ssBeck
is an old chestnut, but he is still on the
IRE, see. The fact is, no man could
have been captured by Indians any,
where in the country and kept so long
in captivity. The agents would have
found it out long ago. Besides, the idea
of him being compelled to marry an In
dian princess, as he said in his first story.
is too absurd for anything. Indian prin-
ceSSeS are not as thick in reality as they
are in the works ofFenimoreCoop Like
the buffaloes, they have been gradually
extinguished. So many white men
have been captured by the savages and
compelled to marry Pocahontases to
save and prolong their lives, that the
breed of princeSses has suffered terribly.
No Dakotian can swallow single bite
of his story. DeadwOod is not the place
for ogallallahs to make raids upon, nor
was 1t twelve years ago. The
| ceeded in capturing whole families
in Deadwood was the tiger. That Amer
lean beast has been known to come into
Deadwood after nightfall, and capture
| whole sections, quarter sections and
townsites before leaving. But families
were not separated by the beast, nor
were they kept in Babylonish captivity,
| like the twelve tribes. Beck is fraud %
The same gentleman added: Beck
heard that his original wife was in easy
circumstances somewhere, and that the
Indian Office could find her. He be-
lieved that she would like to find her
| Enoch Arden and support him for the
| remainder of his days. His squaw, the
red one. is getting old and cannot sup
| port him, and he is willing to be taken
| care of. 1t is believed that he deliber-
ately deserted a wife and two children
and took up with a Squaw, and that is
captivity and woe. The red woman is
probably well rid of him, and the white
woman is not seeking him. Beck will
have to go back to his squaw."
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10
ANOTHER VERSION OF 1T.

A Correspondence Who Asserts
That Gov. Church Acted Hastily
and Unjustly.
Special to the Globe.
GRAND FORKS, Sept. 9.-The citizens
of North Dakota. without distinction of
party. frOwn upon the unfortunate
blunder made at Huron in respect to
Chief Engineer Brown and Col. James
G. Webb, who were summarily dis
missed, without notice or chance to be
heard. An explanation is due both
them and the governor, who permitted
himself to be deceived by others around
him. That the action was an error is
taken for granted, since, at the Solicita-
tion of officers of the First regiment and
citizens of Huron, among them Rev.
Father Maddox. the order was re-
called. 1t was, in fact, never
published on dress parade, as all mill
tary orders must be. The wide pub
licity given this matter demands that
the facts be presented. Briefly they are
these: Col. Brown laid out the camp
and worked necessarily during the in
tensely diSagreeable weather of the first
few days. He lost sleep. caught cold,
and was affected by the vile water. He
applied to Surgeon General Huff. who
prescribed whisky, something he had
not drank for ten years. He took the
drink and, under the surgeons diree-
tionS, went and lay down in his tent and
slept. While in this position some
women
GoSSIPS CAME SPYING ABOUT CAMP
and saw him reclining in his tent. They
Immediately set their tongues wagging.
and from this class of people the gov
ernor's ears were filled. In the even
ing Col. Brown went down town and
met members of Companies F and C, his
neighbors, who look to him as a father.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10

He treated them several times, and, in
vein of hilarity, they sang several
army songs. Col. Webb and others of
the governors staff participating in this
round. However, Col. Brown who was
not intoXicated-as the writer person
ally can teStify-came back to camp
with officers and members of the
Grand Forks company, and went
to his tent, where he remained
quietly. This affair was also
magnified by the gossips of Huron, and
at noon, while Col. Brown was enjoying
his mess with the officers, perfectly
sober, Gov. Church went up to him and
astounded him by saying that his COM
mission was revoked and he would have
to leave camp. The governor drove
away then with Gen. Tyner, under
whose influence he seemed to be. Col.
Webb received his notice at his hotel,
and promptly took off his uniform and
threw it into corner and declared he
would never wear it again.
ALTHOUGH 1T COST HIM SIS.
When the officers and men of Com
pany f heard of this action they inn
mediately asked Capt. Dewey for their
discharges, taking the dismissal of Coils.
Brown and Webb as a high affront to
North Dakota. 1t is proper to say that
uoIu GHe ,oHlcerS repeatedly declared
publicly that they blamed Gen. Tyner
for the whole business. Tyner is adju-
tant general. He is himself veteran,
and was well acquainted with both
Brown and Webb, and knew of their
high standing as upright citizens and
men of integrity, who would scorn to do
mean thing. Besides, Col. Brown had
served for four years in the
war; was a comrade of Ty-
ner and member of the same
political faction; and, instead of stay
ing the hand of the impulsive governor,
who knew neither of these men nor
their backing, he approved the cruel
deed and sneered through his sleeves.
They promise to remember him. Be
fore he set his hand to their public dis
grace he should have cut it off and
thrown it into the fire, if he was a
soldier. This is their sentiment, and
the sentiment of the men who will
stand by the North Dakota colonels.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10
ACT /.

M For long time was able to play cards with and
had that
@ Rgd the wool over Geveands and hung to good job
ahd @ liberalism After Church succeeded played
reform principles By friendship for Church putting
dnee @ and thus acquired point Of advantage without
several @ times successfully the unuspecing
am humiated and for what have
pocy after ALL had earned
mel - = -
ACT
Yet why should epine? I'll laugh
fool Il riend
ship dodge and nonparsan shall have place vocabulary
III bueblood
But P stab them with bubblng humor keen
my Dakota edition? Did mark the nge
will laugh unit sides ache proceed in the
that have marked
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10
BECK is A CHESTNUT.
The Romance Knocked Out of His
Story by the Records and the
Officials.


Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-The following
item of alleged news has been circulated
throughout the country by the Asso-
ciated Press. 1t is but a slender and
gauzy element for romance. A few
weeks ago the New York papers pub
lished upwards of half column con-
cerning the poor old man. bereft of
wife, children, home, happiness. Only
because of the dearth of real news was
this matter given such prominence.
Later, about ten days ago, an enterprise
ing correspondent, who had not orig
1nally caught on, gave it to the world
again. Here is the abbreviated form of
the epidemic:
William Beck, formerly of Philadelphia. is
here asking the government to search for his
wife aud Child who were captured with him
self. he says, by Ogallallah Sioux at Deat,-
wood twelve years ago. He says he was sep-
arated from them and never saw them, and
that he hau been prisoner with the Indians
since, until recently rescued by Canadian
police. .''it A
General Upshaw, the assistant com.
missioner of Indian affairs, who has
been actively in charge of the bureau
all summer, says: "Beck tells a 'fragz
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10
The Rain Caused Damage.

Special to the Globe.
] CHAMBERLAIN, Sept. 9.-There was a
very heavy rain here few days ago
which washed out the bridge across
American creek. north of town. AS the
bridge flOated down the creek it struck
4 section of the water main, breaking it
completely off.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10

If Gen. ALLEN really insists On stand
ing as the candidate for congress, what
will his old friend, Maj. EDWARDS, do
about it?
The enterprising citizens of James
town have showing in the GLOBE to-
day. 1t is pretty good array of the
sort ofpeople who build up countries
and cities and make history. The
GLOBE wishes them success, one and
all.
History does not record many instan-
eeS where politicians, who made them
selves OfficiouS in territories, ever got
much when admission to statehood was
gained. The people, generally get
tired of them by that time.
-
Ex-Gov. ORDwkY'S gentle intimation
that he intends to come back to Dakota
some day seems to have stirred up the
animals considerably. The Democrats
could afford to meet the old gentleman
on the border with a torchlight pro-
cessiOn and brass band and bid him
God-Speed.
"a
Gov. PIERCE has an abundant supply
of sauce for Judge SPENCER's Demo-
cratic goose, but none for Judge
FRANCIS Republican gander. Now,
aint this enough to make the great and
good ex-governor proud of himself!
When he was hanging on by his teeth,
and doing the cringing act so as to be
able to draw fat salary from a Demo-
cratic administration, he boasted of his
non-partiSanship and consistency. Look
at him now, after the mask has been
torn off!
Gov. PIERCE has been making des-
perate effort to work the sympathy
dodge and pose as martyr by calling
the attention of the people 10 the sat-
tackS" that have been made upon him
by emissaries of the territorial admin
istration, while he was feeling very
kindly toward the administration him
self and doing and saying all he
could in its favor. Nothing could be
more ludicrous. The fact is that the
governor, after his retirement from
Office. went about over the territory max
ing great pretentions of his friendship for
Gov. CHURCH, and expressing his earn
est desire for the success of the admin
istration. There was general DISPOSE
ton to commend the action of the gov
ernor and accept his professions in good
faith.
*x*
But it soon began to develop that the
governor was playing double game, and
his stock began to weaken in the mar
ket. He was covertly seeking to injure
and throw obstacles in the way of the
administration while making his profess
sions of good will. When this became
apparent there was considerable in
lignation. and respect for the governor
lessened perceptibly. The only ''at-
tacks' made upon him have been i'm the
nature of exposures of his peculiar
methods There is no room for a legiti-
mate plea for sympathy on this score.
Still, it is easy for one to see why the
governor chafes so easily, and there is
good excuse for his squirming.
AZ
Since the Hon. NJ. II. DAY defined
his position to the GLOBES Washington
correspondent the insane hubbub about
his contemplated coup d. etat has sub
sided. The crop of political prophets in
Dakota was severely injured by the
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10

REPUBLICANS BACK OF 1T.
The impression that all the Repub-
Hcan papers are advocating division is
very remote from the fact. Some of the
influential journals of that political
mission as a whole. The Vermillion
Republican in Clay county, on the south
inc, is outSpoken against the division
schemers, as is the News at the home of
Judge CLIFFORD, and probably a score
of others might be enumerated in the
South, especially in the counties ap-
preaching the forty-siXth parallel.
There is very little support given that
side by the press q the Black
Hills, and in the North it is not easy to
count dozen decided advocates of
division among the newspapers. There
are three or four Democratic papers in
the South that, for special local reasons,
favor dissection, but the jamestown
Capital is the only alleged Democratic
sheet North that wants two stateS-and
Judge WARNoCHis spoken of as ''grand,
gloomy and peculiar" The Bismarck
Tribune, Jamestown Alert, Grand
Rapids Journal and Wahpeton
Times and Gazette are some of
the most urgent Republican oppO-
nents of division. If there are any di-
vision papers at Fargo, their modesty in
proclaiming their opinions is without
precedent in that locality. Nearly all
Democratic journals are active in oppo-
sition to the divisionists, and large
share of the Republican papers are in
different and scarcely notice the matter.
Although all the organization is on the
division side, it would be difficult to
discover any notable increase of public
sentiment on that side. In fact, the
furious beating of tomtoms by few
Republican politicians would indicate
that somebody needs waking I'D.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10

The Action Of Gov. Church, in Re-
voking the Commissions of Coils.
Brown and Webb, Had No PO-
liticaI Significance Whatever.
Special to the Globe.
MILBANK, Sept. 9.-Inasmuch as
press dispatches and editorial comments
have appeared in the Pioneer Press and
other papers for several days past to
the effect that Gov. Church re-
voked the commissions of Col.
Brown. of Grand Forks, and Col.
Webb, of Pembina, at the late
Huron encampment of the Dakota Ma
tional guard, upon political grounds
that the former was Republican and
the latter an ally of Hon. M. II. Day.
deem it due to Gov. Church and his
friends to emphatically denounce the
imputation as unqualifedly false. The
whole matter may be summed up in the
few brief words used by the com
mander-in-chief when, addressing
one of them, he said: 'sYou have dis
graced yourself, disgraced me, and dis
graced the encampment, and l revoke
your commission" The writer was an
eyewitness to very nearly all that oc-
CURED that led to the revoking of the
two commissions. The governors
staff exhausted all means to check
the unpleasantness which was rap
idly developing, by reason of the
refusal of two of their humber to place
any restraint upon their personal liber-
ties. Then, when the decentralization
was becoming evident upon the troops.
who were set a very poor example by
representatives of the governor, the
other members of the staff, in self-de-
fense, brought the matter to the COVER
nor's attention, and the latter very
promptly and very properly took
proper steps that vindicated himself,
which had a most salutary effect upon
the whole encampment. 1t was mat
ter of personal regret that the governor
should be compelled to act so summarily,
but there was no other alternative
under the circumstances, and his action
was most heartily approved by all who
were conversant with the circumstances
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10

IT WOULD not be surprising, in spite
of denials. if there were conclaves being
held of certain noted manipulators in
the interest of one state and opposed to
the diyiSiOnists. There will not, how
ever, probably be any public convention
held
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10

IT Is related that at the meeting of
the editorial fraternity an invitation,
"Major, come up and take something's
brought response from twenty out of
twenty-five present. This, of course.
shows that most of the editors have
done military service and been pro-
mOtpd
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10

Time for the Grand Bounce.
Hurley Herald.
1t is about time that Judge Francis
was given the grand bounce.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10
A DISH OF SALAD.

If Gen. ALLEN really insists On stand
ing as the candidate for congress, what
will his old friend, Maj. EDWARDS, do
about it?
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10
early frostS. Another Rer ublican scheme
has been nipped in the bud.

The GLOBES reports of the encamp-
ment at Huron have been full and COM
plete; but, by way of pleasant compli-
ment, the soldiers are given conspicu-
Gus place in this issue. One cannot say
too many good things of the boys, even
If they have broken camp and gone
home.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10
PROPER AND JUST.

The Action Of Gov. Church, in Re-
voking the Commissions of Coils.
Brown and Webb, Had No Po-
liticaI Significance Whatever.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-10-05
WlGGENH0RN-MlLLeR.

In the city of Milwaukee, Wednesday
evening, September %, 1887, at the resi-
dence of Philip Riehl, grandfather of
the bride, Guido Wiggenhorn, of the firm
of Wiggenhorn Brothers, and Miss Clara
Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Miller, both of this city, were happily
united in wedlock by Rev. Mr.. jacket.
This is a contamination of an event
not unanticipated by the friends of the
young couple, and the fulfillment of the
pledges made one to the other will be
learned with great pleasure by the circles
in which they move. Mr.. and Mrs Wig
genhorn will reside here, intending soon
to occupy their handsome home now in
course of erection on Third street, in the
First ward. The REPUBLICAN extends
its congratulations to the worthy pair,
wishing them prosperous and happy
welded life
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PERSONAL.

Mrs. R. L. Potter is visiting in Chicago.
Mrs. Fred Sprague and children are
visiting at Canton, Mimi.
Miss Ida Pitcher, of Eagle, is on a visit
to Mrs. L. @. Green.
Miss Nellie Prior, of Minneapolis, is
visiting Miss Ida Sprague.
A. P. Chapman, of Milwaukee, visited
his friend John Waldo Monday.
Miss Clara Griffin, of Big Bend, is the
guest of her aunt Mrs. T. Chesley.
Mrs. John Forbes, of Oshkosh, visited
at the residence of Mrs. John Richards,
Friday and Saturday.
Rev. c. &. D. Crittendon, rector of St.
Marks church, Beaver Dam, visited Rev.
]. B. Finn Friday last
Miss Libbie Goodyear, of Hustisford,
was the guest of Miss Annie Rutherford
from Friday until Monday.
Rev. D. o. Sanborn for the past three
years pastor of the M. E. church, is at
tending the annual conference at Apple
ton this week.
Fay Solllday and George Lewis, OF
Delafeld Military school, were visitors
over Sunday at their respective homes in
the Third ward.
Last week Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Dresher, OF Chicago, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
John Perry in Pipersville, and Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Wurtzler of this city.
VIM. T. Rambusch, of Juneau, attend
ed the Grand Encam pment of the G. A.
r. at st. Louis and furnishes our readers
this week with an interesting resume of
the event.
Rev. S. T. Smythe, rector of st. John s
Hall, Delafeld, assisted Rev. ]. B. Finn
10 the services at st. Pauls church Sun
day, preaching both morning and even
ing. Rev. Mr.. Smythe was the guest
while here of DR.. and Mrs. A. Solliday.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-10-05

Provincial Superior Very Rev. VIM.
Corby, of Notre Dame, Indiana, has been
visiting among old parishioners here, and
officiated at st. Bernard's church Sunday
morning last
B. T. Stacy, for several years past book
keeper with the E. 2. Allis Works, Mil
waukee, has accepted the position of ad-
vance agent for Harley Merry's cargo
nauts of 49'' and was bere the first of the
week arranging for the appearance of the
show at Turner Hall this and tomorrow
evenings.
Hon. t. F. Scion, of West Superior,
came down from his home on the shore
of Lake Superior, Friday, and circulated
few days among friends at his old abid-
ing place, Redwood, not forgetting to
show himself to his Watertown acquaint-
ances during his visit 10 these parts. Mr..
Scion reports matters fourishing in his
locality.